Changes in interaction biodiversity induced by an introduced ungulate

Ecology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1077-1083

  Vázquez, Diego P ^a,b   Simberloff, Daniel ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cattle; Interaction biodiversity; Introduced species; Matrix dissimilarity; Network structure; Nonmetric multidimensional scaling; Plant pollinator interactions

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CATTLE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NATURE CONSERVATION; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; UNGULATE;

BOS TAURUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 0347447301     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00534.x     Document Type: Article

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